Myspace: a place for Phishing.

Posted 2 years ago at 8:55 pm. 1 comment
Posted in Myspace.

A clever phishing attempt was made by registering a username that sort of looks like a html page. The username "login_home_index_html" was registered to resemble a myspace login area. The tricky part about it was that since the website was "myspace.com/login_home_index_html" it could easily fool anyone who was caught offgaurd. Netcraft broke the story first stating it was a hacked page used on Myspace’s own servers. Although that would be the worst case scenario, it was just a div layout that looked exactly like a login page except that the login would send information somewhere else. Another spam attempt was made yesterday where bots would send multiple messages to Myspace users. These bots would claim that they knew you from somewhere, and that they wanted to talk. Basically it was a lure for you to look at their obviously fake Myspace page so that you can click to install their sexywebcam.exe.